{"id":154920,"date":"2026-07-21T07:33:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154920"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:33:24","slug":"china-lodges-protest-with-philippines-after-latest-clash-near-second-thomas-shoal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154920","title":{"rendered":"China lodges protest with Philippines after latest clash near Second Thomas Shoal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has lodged a formal protest with the Philippines, accusing it of initiating an attack on its coastguards following the latest clash between the two sides in the South China Sea.<br \/>\nMonday\u2019s clash near the disputed Second Thomas Shoal involved a Chinese coastguard vessel and two Philippine Navy rubber dinghies.<br \/>\nThe China Coast Guard said the Philippines had \u201cillegally\u201d launched the dinghies from the BRP Sierra Madre \u2013 an old warship that was intentionally grounded on the shoal in 1999 \u2013 then&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3361325\/china-lodges-protest-philippines-after-latest-clash-near-second-thomas-shoal?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has lodged a formal protest with the Philippines, accusing it of initiating an attack on its coastguards following the latest clash between the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154920"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}